"The secret of his strength lies in the fact that he expresses the force of the deeper-lying human instincts as they are stimulated by the demands of modern life. He bids us listen to them as guiding voices which tell of the long experience of our human ancestors, and of that line of living forms from which the first of human beings was descended. He warns us that these instincts must not be quenched by the artificiality of what we in our pride call our modern civilization ; that they must be modified to harmonize with the complex environment of these later times, rather than bridled into subjection by a confident rationalism which forgets the failures of reason in the past. - H. R. Mar shall in Century. "Not infrequent in Mr. Kipling's works is an epic quality, both of imagery and diction, it were vain to seek elsewhere in modern fiction. By such vigorous and vital phrases as the dark, stale blood that makes men afraid,' or the earth turned to iron lest men should escape by hiding in her,' he produces a direct, irresistible effect. In his love of homely similes, he keeps close to the practice of the great masters of the epic.' The National Observer. "In the wonderful series of lyrics, which have, one after another, within the past five years captured the whole world and become familiar almost to weariness, the great achievement was that in them he restored poetry to the use of the modern world as a real force. In his hands it has ceased to be a plaything of dilettante scholars and artists, and become a mighty and practical instrument, a weapon of finest temper for polemic controversy, a moral force compared with which the teaching of philosophy, press, and pulpit sounds feeble. It is undoubtedly his very rudeness of strength, use of slang expressions, and coarse realism of which we have spoken, that give his verse such viriïity and pungency and timeliness, that it can shy its castor into the roped arena of every-day men's combats and excitements, where the æsthetic elegance and high-minded aloofness of Tennyson would be as pathetically ludicrous as a knight stalking about in clanking armor." Boston Transcript, 1899 (Editorial). BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FIRST EDITIONS I. SCHOOLBOY LYRICS. Lahore, 1881. 16mo, pp. 46. : The Civil and 2. ECHOES. By two writers. Lahore the Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1884. 8vo. (Privately cir culated while Kipling was a young man on the staff of The Civil and Military Gazette.) 3. QUARTETTE, THE CHRISTMAS ANNUAL OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY GAZETTE. By Four Anglo-Indian Lahore, 1885. Gray paper wrapper. Writers. PP. 125. 8vo. (Written entirely by members of the Kipling family. Includes "The Phantom 'Rickshaw and "The Strange Ride of Marrowbie Jukes, C.B.") 4. ON HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE ONLY, DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES, AND OTHER VERSES. To all Heads of Departments and All Anglo-Indians. Rudyard Kipling, Assistant. Department of Public Journalism, Lahore District. 1886. Oblong 8vo. Printed on one side only, on brown paper like a public document, at Lahore, by The Civil and Military Gazette Press. 5. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. Second edition. Lahore, n. d. (1887?). 8vo. "Second edition of Departmental Ditties' had extra verses; so, I believe, had third. - Rudyard Kipling. 6. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. Third edition. Lahore ( 1888 ?). 8vo. 7. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS. Calcutta Thacker, Spink, & Co. London: W. Thacker & Co. 1888. 12mo. pp. xii-283. Twenty-eight of the forty tales appeared originally in The Civil and Military Gazette; the others were new. (200) 8. SOLDIERS THREE. A Collection of Stories setting forth Certain Passages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris, and John Learoyd. Done into type and Edited by Rudyard Kipling. Allahabad : Printed at the Pioneer Press. 1888. Gray paper covers. 8vo. PP. 97. Issued as No. 1 of A. H. Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library. 9. THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS. A tale without a plot. paper covers. 8vo. PP. vi-100. No. 2 of A. H. 10. IN BLACK AND WHITE. Allahabad A. H. Wheeler : & Co. 1888. Gray paper wrappers. 8vo. In PP. 106. No. 3 of Wheeler's Indian Railway Library. II. UNDER THE DEODARS. Allahabad A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1888. : Gray paper wrappers. 8vo. Preface. pp. 106. No. of Wheeler's Indian Railway Library, 12. THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW, AND OTHER TALES. lahabad A. H. Wheeler & Co. : 13. Al 1888. Gray paper wrappers. 8vo. PP. 104. No. 5 of Wheeler's Indian Railway Library. THE PHANTOM 'RICKSHAW, And Other EERIE TALES. First English Edition. 8vo. Original wrappers. London. 1888. 14. WEE WILLIE WINKIE, AND OTHER CHILD STORIES. Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1888. Gray paper covers. 8vo. PP. 96. No. 6 of Wheeler's Indian Railway Library. RIES. 15. THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD, AND OTHER STOWith a Biographical and Critical Sketch by Andrew Lang. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1890. Paper covers. Portrait. 12mo. Pp. xii-182. Fourth 16. Departmental Ditties, and Other Verses. 17. THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, AND OTHER SKETCHES. (Suppressed.) Allahabad. 1890. 8vo. "Of this book an edition of 3,000 copies, printed for Wheeler & Co., was cancelled. Of the edition three copies only were preserved." Manuscript note on fly leaf of copy sold in London last December for £22. 18. SOLDIERS THREE, AND OTHER STORIES. First American Edition. 12mo. Original wrappers. New York : John W. Lovell Co. 1890. Prefixed to this edition is a facsimile letter of the author, not published elsewhere. 19. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES, AND OTHER VERSES. Fifth edition (containing several additional poems). Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co. London: W. Thacker & Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. 1891. [ 8vo. pp. vi-121. 20. THE CITY OF DREADFul Night, aND OTHER PLaces. Depicted by Rudyard Kipling. Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. Gray paper covers. 8vo. pp. 96. No. 14 of Wheeler's Indian Railway Library. (Suppressed by me."— Rudyard Kipling.). 21. DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES, AND OTHER VERSES. Sixth edition. 1891. Identical with 5th except for the addition of a glossary of four pages. 22. THE SMITH ADMINISTRATION. (Suppressed.) Allahabad A. H. Wheeler & Co. 1891. : 8vo. "Of this work an edition of 3,000 copies was printed, but owing to a difference of opinion between Rudyard Kipling and the proprietors of the Pioneer and Civil and Military Gazette, the entire edition was destroyed, with the exception of three copies." - Manuscript note on fly-leaf of one of the three copies sold in London, December, 1898, for £26. |